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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!

Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.

Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak

All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.

DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.

DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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Navy Speak

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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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Letter-Writing Navy Moms

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Show support for your Sailor and express yourself with a hand-written gesture. Have any tips to share? Feel free to add your comments and experiences to help other moms and loved ones!

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Latest Activity: Jan 18

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Comment by Mother of 4 on February 2, 2014 at 10:51am: Thanks for all the great ideas! My son leaves for BC on Wed. These are ideas greatly help!

Comment by MommaDukes on February 1, 2014 at 10:41am: BeachBunny- Thanks. Am ok, hoping for some nice weather this weekend to get out of the house a little. Being in the house is hard at times. I just saw someone's comment to send address labels to save the SR some time. I just ordered some special ones just for my letters with the flag on them. Maybe something else you can do ahead of time. Trying not to embarrass my great son. Went and got flag stamps yesterday- as I sent my SR with some as well.

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Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on February 1, 2014 at 12:59am: BeachBunny...thanks for the info! That is good to know.

MommaDukes...what an AWESOME idea to put a letter in his wallet for him to read. That is going to be super special for him. I will have to remember that idea for when my FS leaves. Hope you are doing alright and staying strong! Just think...any day now you will get his Form letter and you can start sending your letters to him!

Comment by MommaDukes on February 1, 2014 at 12:42am: Thanks all for the great ideas. I put a letter in his wallet before he left and told him it was for when he needed me.. And to reread when he needed positive thoughts. I have been writing a page here and there and waiting for the address to send them to. Got the box today.. and thanks to all the great info I got on this site I figure out the paper in the box with other SR names on means he got to be a group leader till they got to GL - so that makes me proud.. Try to update him on simple silly things and keep it positive.

Comment by BeachBunny on January 31, 2014 at 11:34pm: They are issued a set in BC now...navy stationary, stamps, pen...:)

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on January 31, 2014 at 11:20pm: Lemonelephant...do they keep a stash of the stationery and envelopes in their A/B drawer so that they are handy?

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on January 30, 2014 at 9:52pm: I'm trying to make a list right now of concrete things to write about to my son when he leaves for BC. I just think it will help spark ideas for me when he is gone. Did any of you do this or did it just flow out of you? For some reason I am so scared that I won't know what to write about. Some of the items on my list are specific to our family, but some of it is generalized. I will share with the group just so that maybe someone else can use it to help them write letters to their SR too.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on January 30, 2014 at 9:32pm

Comment by Bonnie-Codysmom on January 28, 2014 at 5:20pm: hi all...my son leaves Sunday for BC and i already want to start writing..lol. lots of great info here to write about so im hoping my letters will be upbeat enough and hopefully make him smile..

Comment by BeachBunny on January 27, 2014 at 12:26am: Agree with lemonelephant...I have the letters my brother wrote me in the late 80s on Navy stationary ....great memories to have!